Why the USA is a disgrace

[JuliaL]

Okay, so sometimes people comment that I'm "too anti-American". Well I have good reason. Some of the shit that they do has far-reaching consequences.

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• The USA starts wars. They're the most war-hungry nation on the planet.
  
• They are the worst first world country in their handling of income inequality.
  
• Companies based in the USA extort people. This includes so-called "copyright trolls" and other companies like PayPal that freeze accounts without warning and keep all of their client's money.
  
• Prostitution is still prosecuted, and pornographers have not been forced to provide a safe work-palace, despite the enactment of a new law in California.
  
• Minors can be tried as adults - something not done in any other first world country.
  
• Criminal prosecutions are excessive.
  
• They trigged the GFC because they allowed predatory behaviour in the corporate banking world.
  
• Because they have corporations that are based on distributing creative works, they fight to keep copyrights and patents at unreasonable lengths, in measures that only benefit publishers and not artists or researchers.
  
• They believe they can dictate to other sovereign States how they should behave, and what policies they should enforce.
  

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Feel free to add your own points.

OK, you don't like the Imperium.  Tough, nobody does.
If it wasn't US, it would be somebody else.
Big and nasty in and in charge is more stable than Kumbaya unless the latter band together to out-nasty the former.
So that's what society generally falls into and stays there.
You'd rather hand the world over to Putin or the Communist Party of China?
At least corporations have to pretend interest in satisfying customers.